Re: looks like it's happening everywhere but the US.

On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 12:32:38PM -0500, Tom Adelstein wrote:
> [email protected] wrote:
>  > the nature of
>  > our democracy makes it very unlikely and even illegal to enact
>  > laws that prohibit open access to bidding for government work
> 
> 
> Please forgive me in advance for contradicting you. I wrote a paper 
> about this http://governmentforge.org/archives/000064.html
> 
> and felt I clearly established that the nature of our democracy would 
> encourage such laws.

You misunderstood. I'm saying that the US is moving to Open Source, but
that we can't enact laws that prohibit specific vendors from competing
to do the work for the government.

In order to disagree with me you would have to be saying that Americans
can enact laws that prohibit a specific vendor from competing for work.

Is that what your saying?   Otherwise - I think we actually agree.

Its certainly legal to publish certain requirements that all vendors
have to meet.  This doesn't disqualify anyone.  They can choose not to
meet those requiremensts and therefore choose not to bid for the work.


> 
> Democracy and capitalism are not coupled in any way. In fact, most of 
> the current laws and regulations related to the DMCA have constitutional 
> deficiencies.
> 
> I spoke with members of the Texas senate within the last two weeks and 
> we're encouraged by the Massachusetts policy statement. We plan to put 
> our Open Source mandate into law.

Great - Excellent - more proof that the US is also moving towards OSS.

> 
> from: http://www.cioupdate.com/trends/article.php/2237451


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